About

The Forest Carbon Index (FCI) is the product of a yearlong effort by a team of researchers to model and analyze the global distribution of forest carbon resources.  The FCI came out of collaboration among Resources for the Future (RFF), Climate Advisers, and the InternationalInstitute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), with website design by Blue Raster.

The summary for policymakers and investors was authored by Nigel Purvis and Adrian Deveny.The Forest Carbon Index project was directed by Nigel Purvis. Adrian Deveny was the lead author and principal researcher. Janet Nackoney conducted the spatial modeling and analyses, and created the cartographic results. Mykola Gusti, Ray Kopp, Erin Myers Madeira, Andrew Stevenson, Georg Kindermann, Molly Macauley, and Michael Obersteiner were coauthors.

 
Acknowledgments

The authors of this report thank the United Nations Foundation for their financial support on outreach and coordination of the Forest Carbon Index.

The Forest Carbon Index is part of the Forest Carbon Initiative of the Climate Policy Program at RFF, which is funded by contributions from individuals, corporations, government agencies and foundations.  The Climate Policy Program received grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Simons Foundation to support the Forest Carbon Initiative.  The Program also received a special gift from the Center for Environmental Markets at Goldman Sachs for this and other work.  

We would also like to thank ESRI for their GIS software donation through the ESRI Conservation Program. For more information, please contact RFF Senior Fellow Ray Kopp at info@climateadvisers.com.

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